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Trump Orders Crackdown on 'Left-Wing' Violence as DOJ Pushes Plans to Probe Soros’s Open Society Foundations

OSF describes the push as politically motivated given the lack of public evidence of organized networks.

FILE - In this June 21, 2019, file photo, George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations, looks before the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria. The richest 25 Americans pay less in tax — 15.8% of adjusted gross income — than many ordinary workers do, once you include taxes for Social Security and Medicare, the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica found, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)
Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros looks on after having delivered a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting, on January 23, 2020 in Davos, eastern Switzerland.
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 25: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on September 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is expected to sign executive orders, including approving a partial sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations, following a 2024 law requiring parent company ByteDance to divest or face a ban. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Overview

  • Aakash Singh, a DOJ lawyer in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, instructed multiple U.S. attorneys to draft investigative plans into Open Society Foundations, listing potential charges including racketeering, arson, wire fraud, and material support for terrorism.
  • Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing an interagency effort led by the FBI with roles for Treasury and the IRS to identify and disrupt funding networks for what the administration calls domestic political violence, including reviews of tax‑exempt status.
  • Pressed for examples, Trump named Democratic donors George Soros and Reid Hoffman as possible targets for investigation without offering evidence of wrongdoing.
  • Open Society Foundations said it condemns terrorism and called the reported investigations politically motivated attacks on civil society and free speech, while a DOJ spokesman defended the effort as a public‑safety priority.
  • The DOJ directive drew on a Capital Research Center report alleging more than $80 million in OSF grants tied to extremism, but authorities have announced no charges and say there is no public evidence linking recent attacks to coordinated left‑wing networks.